1984

by George Orwell

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

Thought crime is death by social suicide

The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness,

“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

We don’t all have the privilege of fighting in the front line, but at least we can all keep fit. Remember our boys on the Malabar front! And the sailors in the Floating Fortresses! Just think what they have to put up with.

It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations—that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago. Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

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